Les Murray
Paul Kane reviews 'The Poetry of Les Murray' edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Les Murray' by Steven Matthews, and 'Poems the Size of Photographs' by Les Murray
You might expect a book of eighty-eight new poems by Les Murray to be sizeable (most of his recent single volumes run to about sixty poems each). But Poems the Size of Photographs More
Peter Goldsworthy reviews 'Collected Poems' by Les Murray
A seven-hundred-page Collected Poems? The cover photograph of the Big Bloke himself is an embodiment of what’s inside in all its sprawling abundance. As is his surname, which can’t hel More
'Waiting for the Past' by Les Murray
'A Denizen', a new poem by Les Murray
The octopus is dead
who lived in Wylies Baths
below the circus balustrade
and the chocked sea tiles.
Anthony Lynch reviews 'The Quadrant Book of Poetry' edited by Les Murray
In his polemical Introduction, Les Murray notes that Quadrant was founded sixty years ago by poet James McAuley, the ‘stern formalist’ who ensured that poetry occupied a promi More
John Ross (ed.): The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing
Afternoon tea
Susan K. Martin
The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing
edited by John Ross
Viking, $32.95 pb, 356 pp, 9780670076413
Twinings has recently introduced a new tea flavour called ‘Australian Afternoon Tea’. On the box is an image ... More
